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Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and…
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment…
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Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural…
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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by…
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I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be…
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
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America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the…
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find…
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I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point…
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We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to…
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I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it,…
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations
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There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like…
— Giordano Bruno
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Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he…
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Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.
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You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll…
— Unknown Author
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I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause…
— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
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I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people,
— Ani DiFranco
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Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these…
— George Washington
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which…
— Sigmund Freud
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.
— Marianne Moore
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